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Design Challenge 2018: Negative Space

My 2018 Challenge to follow 365 Days of Creativity by Yes I’m a Designer.

Yesterday I created a Github repo to document, and store my practice files for my 2018 Design Challenge.  I realized that I’m going to need to revisit Martin’s commentary videos and practice.

Here’s Martin’s 1 minute video on Negative Space:

Today’s Tips

  • Cmd/Ctrl-shift-O turns text into shapes
  • Place white text on black background

The first example was simple, and not much of a problem.

On my second example, however, I gave up and simply created white letters with a black stroke.

My Adobe Illustrator files and png’s are on Github.